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Parents: please screen this before reading it to young children! Ack! I don’t know how to rate this book. I loved, loved, loved it up until the very last page, starting with the cover. I was completely charmed. It’s sweet, very funny, the different sized pages make for much suspense. Up until the last Leggi tutto

All the birds laid an egg except for duck. Then duck found an egg. It was an odd egg. All the eggs hatched but not duck's until creak crack and what comes out is a huge surprise. I knew I would love this until the last page which I don't know what to make of. The title is great, the front cover is ad Leggi tutto

Named one of the top ten "Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009" by The New York Times , Emily Gravett's The Odd Egg is a picture-book I've been eager to peruse, all the more so after reading a goodreads friend's review, with its rather cryptic references to the final page of the story. I now kno Leggi tutto

A fun interactive book about being different and the odd one out. The surprise ending was very snappy!